Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund

Sponsored by the Senate Appropriations Committee

Topics:State budget Transportation

Same legislation: SSB 3186, HSB 763

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedMarch 11, 2026
Done: SubcommitteeMarch 11, 2026
Done: Senate committeeApril 1, 2026
Done: Passes the SenateApril 27, 202646–0
Done: House committeeApril 29, 2026
Done: Passes the HouseMay 2, 202685–1
Done: To the GovernorMay 11, 2026
Done: Signed into lawJune 2, 2026

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What’s in it

AI summary This bill sets aside money from specific state road and tax funds to pay for the Iowa Department of Transportation. These funds will cover things like fixing roads, maintaining buildings, managing driver's licenses, and updating computer systems. It also allows money previously set aside for a highway complex in Davenport to stay available for use through 2028.¹

Read the official explanation

This bill makes appropriations from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund to the department of transportation. Appropriations for FY 2026-2027 from the road use tax fund include appropriations for transportation operations, motor vehicles, utility services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, county issuance of driver’s licenses and vehicle registration and titling, participation in the Mississippi river parkway commission, the traffic and criminal software program and the mobile architecture and communications handling program, and motor vehicle division field facility maintenance projects and systems modernization. Appropriations for FY 2026-2027 from the primary road fund include appropriations for transportation operations, utility services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, transportation maps, inventory and equipment replacement, the statewide interoperability network, major facility maintenance and enhancement, routine facility maintenance and preservation, and the Alton maintenance garage. The bill provides that an FY 2023-2024 appropriation for replacement of the Davenport highway operations complex will remain available until the close of FY 2027-2028.

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Senate subcommittee

Named March 11, 2026 (as SSB 3186). On March 26, 2026 it recommended passage.

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Lobbying

2 for · 0 against · 9 undecided · Who →

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Tried before

HF 2557Became law89th GA SF 576Became law90th GA SF 2422Became law90th GA HF 2683Didn’t advance90th GA

Study bill

SSB 3186Renumbered HSB 763Cleared committee

91st General Assembly

SF 2478Became lawfrom SSB 3186

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. A version became law.

SF 2422 Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the departme…
90th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · same title
Became law
HF 2683 Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the departme…
90th General Assembly · Withdrawn · similar
Didn’t advance
SF 576 Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the departme…
90th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · similar
Became law
HF 2557 Relating to transportation and other infrastructure-related appropriations to the departme…
89th General Assembly · Signed by Governor · similar
Became law
HF 863 Relating to transportation and other infrastructure- related appropriations to the departm…
89th General Assembly · Withdrawn · similar
Didn’t advance

Matched by wording or an identical title.